Justin Hayward-Young

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Justin James Hayward-Young (born 2 May 1987), often referred to simply as Justin Young, is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. He is currently the lead singer and guitarist of English indie rock band The Vaccines.

Early life

Young was born in Southampton, Hampshire and grew up in the New Forest. He is a great-grandson of the prolific English painter and postcard artist Walter Hayward-Young who was commonly known as "Jotter". He has stated that his father is a musician and that he grew up in a "musical household" and began playing music by borrowing his father's guitars. He loved Elvis during his childhood, and bands such as Nirvana when he was a teenager.

In June 2010 Justin graduated from King's College London with a degree in history.

Career

During his teenage years, he played in a band called The Eldora Parade, and at 16 he started a group called Fashion Police Brutality. In his early 20s while living in London, Young started a solo project and performed under the stage name Jay Jay Pistolet. As Jay Jay Pistolet, Young released an EP 'We Are Free' with Chess Club Records in 2008 and 'Happy Birthday You' with Stiff Records. In December 2008, Justin Young announced that he would be no longer be performing as Jay Jay Pistolet and left his fans with a 25-track 'Goodbye CD'. In 2010 he started his current band, The Vaccines, along with current bandmates Freddie Cowan, Árni Árnason and Pete Robertson. In 2011, Young underwent three separate throat operations to treat haemorrhaging due to recurrent vocal polyps.

Justin

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Justin (consul 540)

Flavius Mar(cianus?) Petrus Theodorus Valentinus Rusticius Boraides Germanus Iustinus, simply and commonly known as Justin (Latin: Iustinus, Greek: Ἰουστίνος; circa 525–566), was an East Roman (Byzantine) aristocrat and general. A member of the Justinian Dynasty and nephew of Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565), he was appointed as one of the last Roman consuls in 540, before going on to assume senior military commands in the Balkans and in Lazica. He fought against the Slavs, the Sassanid Persians and supervised the Byzantine Empire's first contacts with the Avars. At the time of Justinian's death, he was seen as a probable successor, but was beaten to the throne by his cousin, Justin II (r. 565–578), who exiled him to Egypt, where he was murdered.

Biography

Early life and campaigns

Justin was born around 525, the eldest son of Germanus and his wife Passara. Germanus was a cousin of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565) and thus a member of the wider Justinian dynasty and cousin to Justinian's successor, Emperor Justin II (r. 565–578). In 540, he was named ordinary consul at a very young age; he is illustrated as beardless in his consular diptych, and is still mentioned as a "young man" by Procopius nine years later. At this point, he already held the title of vir illustris and the honorary office of comes domesticorum. In the same year, he accompanied his father to the East against the Sassanid Persians, but saw no action. In 549, he was instrumental in the revelation of the plot to overthrow Emperor Justinian by the Armenian general Artabanes and his associates. The conspirators intended to assassinate Emperor Justinian and his favourite general Belisarius, and raise Germanus to the Byzantine throne. Notified of their intentions, Justin informed his father, who then told Marcellus, the Count of the Excubitors, leading to the plotters' arrest.

Justin (general under Justinian I)

Justin (Latin: Justinus, Greek: Ἰουστίνος) was a 6th-century East Roman (Byzantine) general, who was active in the Gothic War in Italy under Justinian I (r. 527–565).

Biography

Nothing is known of Justin's origins or early life. He appears for the first time in 528, when along with Narses he was sent to Italy with 7,000 men as reinforcements for Belisarius, who had just successfully survived siege of Rome by the Ostrogoths. At the time, he held the position of magister militum per Illyricum, a post he may have been appointed to already in 536, after the death of general Mundus. In the dissension that broke out in the Byzantine army between Belisarius and Narses, Justin sided with the latter, and accompanied him to the relief of the Gothic siege of Ariminum, defended by the general John. After the successful outcome of the operation, along with John, Justin proceeded to occupy the region of Aemilia against little Gothic resistance during the winter of 538/539. The rift in the imperial army had by this time deepened to the point that Justin and John outright refused to obey orders from Belisarius to march to the aid of the city of Mediolanum, which was being besieged by the Goths with their Frankish allies, instead waiting for relevant orders from Narses. The delay proved fatal, and the great city was captured and razed by the Franko-Gothic army.